Lectures and Daily Quizzes

Lectures this semester will be recorded, and are available to you on MediaSpace.

Every lecture this semester will have a quiz. Quizzes can be done as many times as you wish; only your best score counts. Quizzes are made available at the beginning of lecture, and are due 23 hours later; you need not be present in lecture to take the quiz. If you miss the deadline, you may submit a quiz late for a penalty of only 5% per day, up to a maximum penalty of 50%, until May 14, 2026 at 23:59. Late penalties are not waived for injury, illness, travel, or disaster, but your four lowest quiz scores will be dropped.

Readings are from Mackworth & Poole, 3rd edition. Readings are optional; all required material is covered on the slides, quizzes, and MPs.

Week	Day	Quiz	Slides	Reading
1	W	21-Jan	Welcome & Intro	ch. 1
	F	23-Jan	Random Variables	9.1-2
2	M	26-Jan	Decision Theory	12.1
	W	28-Jan	Naïve Bayes	10.2.2
	F	30-Jan	Bayes Networks	9.3
3	M	2-Feb	HMM	J&M ch 17
	W	4-Feb	Fairness	7.7
	F	6-Feb	Learning	7.1-2
4	M	9-Feb	Linear Regression	7.3.2
	W	11-Feb	Logistic Regression	7.3.2
	F	13-Feb	word2vec	8.5.1
5	M	16-Feb	Exam 1
	W	18-Feb	Nonlinear Regression	8.1
	F	20-Feb	Softmax	7.3
6	M	23-Feb	Transformer	AIAYN
	W	25-Feb	Theorem Proving	15.5
	F	27-Feb	Computer Vision	Pinhole Camera
7	M	2-Mar	Exam 2
	W	4-Mar	Convolution	7.4
	F	6-Mar	Explainable AI	XAI
8	M	9-Mar	Robotics	6.1
	W	11-Mar	Search	3.1-5
	F	13-Mar	A*	3.6-7
	M	16-Mar	Spring Break
	W	18-Mar	Spring Break
	F	21-Mar	Spring Break
9	M	23-Mar	MDP	12.5
	W	25-Mar	Reinforcement Learning	13.1;13.5;13.8
	F	27-Mar	Q-Learning	13.3;13.4;13.7;13.9
10	M	30-Mar	Policy Learning	Policy Gradient
	W	1-Apr	Reward Hacking	13.10
	F	3-Apr	Exam 3 Review
11	M	6-Apr	Exam 3
	W	8-Apr	Minimax	14.3
	F	10-Apr	Engineering Open House
12	M	13-Apr	Monte Carlo & Expectiminimax	14.4
	W	15-Apr	Game Theory	14.2
	F	17-Apr	Adversarial Learning	14.7
13	M	20-Apr	Exam 4
	W	22-Apr	Mechanism Design	14.6
	F	24-Apr	Future of Work	Unemployment
14	M	27-Apr	Consciousness	Consciousness
	W	29-Apr	TBA
	F	1-May	Exam 5 Review
15	M	4-May	No Lecture
	W	6-May	No Lecture
16	T	TBA	Exam 5